BSF ICT Contracts Awarded

[steve]

Being the geek I am, I've spent all evening trying to find out who's been awarded a BSF contract for a managed ICT contract.

These are the ones I've found so far:

Bradford	SUN?
Bristol City of	Northgate Information Solutions 
Gateshead	Morse
Greenwich	VT Education and Skills
Hackney	        RM
Islington	RM
Knowsley	RM
Lambeth	        RM
Lancashire	Redstone Communications
Leeds	        RM
Leicester	Northgate Information Solutions
Lewisham	VT Education and Skills
Manchester	Ramesys Limited
Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle LA with Dell
Sheffield	Civica
Solihull	RM
South Tyneside	Morse
Stoke-on-Trent	RM
Sunderland	RM
Waltham Forest	Ramesys Limited
Westminster	Ramesys Limited

Now this is where you can all help - do you work in one of these LAs? Have I got the contract winner correct? Do you work in a different LA that has awarded a contract?

If you have any more info, send it to me in a PM - I'll update my list and keep the edugeek faithful up to date.

[russdev]

Can we wiki it

Russ

[Gatt]

Hmm.... Salford are keeping things behind closed doors.. cant find any information about the ICT side of it..

[steve]

Can we wiki it

Russ

I was think that myself last night in bed

Any other info we want to include? I thought along the lines of:

Value of ICT contract
Start date of contract
Wave of BSF
Was ICT a separate tender?
Link to supplier / Link to news of award

Any more?

I'll start a wiki tonight .....

[localzuk]

Well RM are gonna be rolling the money...

[Gatt]

I hope to God it's not RM or Ramesys that win it for Salford

[russdev]

Hi Steve feel free to add it to edugeek wiki very useful..

Russ

[GrumbleDook]

Well RM are gonna be rolling the money...

It has been noted by a few people (including their rivals) that RM are usually only winning where they already have a significant presence. I will ask P4S if they have an easier list to manage ...

[torledo]

Being the geek I am, I've spent all evening trying to find out who's been awarded a BSF contract for a managed ICT contract.

These are the ones I've found so far:

Bradford	SUN?
Bristol City of	Northgate Information Solutions 
Gateshead	Morse
Greenwich	VT Education and Skills
Hackney	        RM
Islington	RM
Knowsley	RM
Lambeth	        RM
Lancashire	Redstone Communications
Leeds	        RM
Leicester	Northgate Information Solutions
Lewisham	VT Education and Skills
Manchester	Ramesys Limited
Newcastle upon Tyne	Newcastle LA with Dell
Sheffield	Civica
Solihull	RM
South Tyneside	Morse
Stoke-on-Trent	RM
Sunderland	RM
Waltham Forest	Ramesys Limited
Westminster	Ramesys Limited

Now this is where you can all help - do you work in one of these LAs? Have I got the contract winner correct? Do you work in a different LA that has awarded a contract?

If you have any more info, send it to me in a PM - I'll update my list and keep the edugeek faithful up to date.

Is RM big enough to handle all those contracts, and the doubtless several more they are likely to win. I think RM can only manage all these by TUPing existing school staff aswell as working in partnership with the various LA IT depts

[Geoff]

Thread stickied!

[CyberNerd]

I may be wrong, but I though Northgate subcontracted to RM, so all Northgate schools will be CC3 as well?

[broc]

Is RM big enough to handle all those contracts, and the doubtless several more they are likely to win. I think RM can only manage all these by TUPing existing school staff aswell as working in partnership with the various LA IT depts

TUPE is part & parcel of the managed services process, it gets the staff off the school/LA payroll while leaving the employer with a 'clear' conscience. In all the discussions I have had with people involved in the BSF process this has been openly discussed as part of the plan. I believe even those LAs who have managed to jointly bid with private companies intend to transfer staff from the school to the managed service provider, even if that turns out to be a different part of the LA.

[Deaks]

Northgate for Kent Phaze 1

[Deaks]

I may be wrong, but I though Northgate subcontracted to RM, so all Northgate schools will be CC3 as well?

Northgate were bidding against RM here in Kent. RM themselves in their discussions said that if they won the system they put put in would NOT be either CC3 or ConnectFour but something else.

[russdev]

Yes Rm winning does not mean they will install cc3/cc4 depends on lea.

Russ